Neal Nathanson Memorial Lecture

February 13, 2002
Stanley Prusiner, MD :: University of California, San Francisco
"Prion biology and new approaches to therapeutics"

March 19, 2003
Rafi Ahmed, MD :: Emory University School of Medicine
"Immunological memory: Remembering our pathogens"

April 7, 2004
Michael Oldstone, PhD :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Molecular anatomy of virus-induced immunosuppression and demyelination"

April 27, 2005
Stanley Falkow, PhD :: Stanford University School of Medicine
"Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer"

(No lecture in 2006)

May 9, 2007
Beatrice Hahn, MD :: University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Origins of HIV-1: An unexpected twist"

May 14, 2008
David Baltimore, PhD :: California Institute of Technology
"MicroRNAs and inflammation"

May 13, 2009
Diane Griffin, MD, PhD :: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Alphavirus encephalitis: Viral and host determinants of outcome"

April 16, 2010
Harold Varmus, MD :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Trying to understand cancers as well as we understand viruses"

June 22, 2011
Michael H Malim, D Phil :: King's College London School of Medicine
"Exploiting replication deficiencies to illuminate HIV: Host interactions"

May 9, 2012
Julie Overbaugh, PhD :: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
"A basic scientist’s journey into interdisciplinary, international HIV research"

May 15, 2013
Gary J Nabel, MD, PhD :: National Institutes of Health
"Addressing viral diversity in vaccine design for AIDS and Influenza"

May 14, 2014
Anthony S Fauci, MD :: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
"Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: From Scientific Advances to Public Health Implementation"

Apr 28, 2015          
Daniel A Portnoy, PhD :: University of California, Berkeley
“The Molecular and Cell Biology of Listeria Pathogenesis: from bacterial genetics to cell-mediated immunity”

April 13, 2016        
Peter C Doherty, PhD, FRS :: University of Melbourne :: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
“The Killer Defence"

May 10, 2017         
Mary K Estes, PhD :: Baylor College of Medicine
“Understanding Human Noroviruses: A Bench to Bedside Story (and Solving a 40+ Year Mystery)”

May 31, 2018
Sarah Rowland-Jones, BM BCh, MA, DM :: University of Oxford
“Learning from unusual patient cohorts about immunity in HIV infection”

May 29, 2019
Charles M Rice, PhD :: The Rockefeller University
“Hepatitis C virus: From discovery to cure and beyond”

May 12, 2021
Galit Alter, PhD :: Harvard University
“Systems serology to define correlates of immunity to SARS-CoV-2”

May 4, 2022
Susan Weiss, PhD :: University of Pennsylvania
“Forty Years of Coronaviruses”

May 4, 2023
Katalin Karikó, PhD :: University of Pennsylvania
“Developing mRNA for Therapy”